NALT

Preferred term

shifting cultivation

Topic

A farming system, common in the tropics, in which land is cleared, the debris burned, and crops grown for a relatively short period until yields decline. The land is then abandoned. The original land is cleared and cropped again after a uncontrolled fallow period of 3-20 years, usually when soil fertility has been naturally restored by woody vegetation.

farming systems

bush fallow systems
slash and burn agriculture
slash and burn farming
slash-and-burn agriculture
swidden agriculture

Field 001 in MARC Authority Format

33804

Spanish

cultivo migratorio
agricultura de corte y quema
agricultura de roce y quema
agricultura de tala y quema
agricultura migratoria
agricultura nómada
cultivo de roza
cultivo nómada
proceso de corte y quema
sistema de barbecho arbolado
sistema de barbecho forestal
sistema de corte y quema
sistema de tumba y quema
sistemas agrícolas de corte y quema

URI

https://lod.nal.usda.gov/nalt/20559

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Created 1/19/06, last modified 9/28/17